Exhibition Walkthrough with Curator Amelia Jones

Join us for an exhibition walkthrough of Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” led by curator Amelia G. Jones. Explore cultural memory through Gonzales-Day’s photographs, drawings, paintings, and scholarship research that confronts the omissions and erasures in official narratives, especially those related to race, place, memory, and identity in the United States. His work foregrounds the power of imagery to expose how American history silenced voices, bringing these stories to the forefront.

ABOUT THE CURATOR :

Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research at Roski School of Art & Design at USC, a curator and scholar of contemporary art, performance, and feminist and sexuality studies. Recent publications include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012); a volume co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (2016); and the edited special issue “On Trans/Performance” of “Performance Research” (2016). Jones’s catalogue Queer Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell, and which accompanied a retrospective of Athey’s work at Participant Inc. (New York) and ICA (Los Angeles), was listed among Best Art Books 2020 in the New York Times. Her 2021 book, entitled In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance, explores the history of performance art and queer theory since the 1950s, from a queer feminist point of view. She is currently working on a book entitled Lifework: Against Cultural Capitalism the addressing creative life in the face of neoliberalism and structural racism in the Euro-American university and art complex.

Image: Ken Gonzales-Day, Celestial Venus, Profield Series, 2011, archival ink on rag paper, 58 x 44 in.

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